I haven’t been knitting or crocheting much in the past few
days. I’m burnt out after 139 hearts for Valentine’s Day to be honest. Call me
crazy, but it was a lot and I hurt my thumb pushing in all the thumb tacks to
hold the darn thing up. I just needed a break. I did find a home for my
leftover hearts.
I've still been working on my green hat, I think I’m ready
to decrease now, but it isn’t ready to make an appearance. Today I felt
inspired enough to begin working on a new project. Ruffled Neck Kerchief by Laura Irwin (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ruffled-neck-kerchief)
from Boutique Knits. I’ve been
staring at my yarn for ages trying to decide what to use. After much deliberation, I decided some
Dale of Norway Baby Ull would be wonderfully soft and use up some of my yarn
stash. Then I just had to choose a color, which is easier said than done (I have two boxes on my shelves stuffed with it). First it was going to be dark blue
and orange, then dark blue and white, and then finally I completely changed my
mind and went with brown with lavender.
I’m hoping to use straight needles for this project, not
that I don’t like circular needles; I just love straight needles. I only had
straight needles for many years and my collection has a lot of sentimental
value to it beyond that. They live in this vase they look a bit messy, but I’m
mostly blind to the mess. I like to stare at them sometime and remember all the
projects I’ve knit on them. I remember knitting my first blanket on the pink
size 5’s, the pillow cover I failed to make on the weird flexible green size
10’s, the many dishcloths that have come off the size 7's, and the awful scarf I made with the sticky yarn that took the paint off the
tips of the size 8’s. Circular needles come and go as they break apart at the
seams, but straight knitting needles, they last a lifetime.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
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